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In the span of five minutes Monday morning, a man attacked two mothers pushing their babies in strollers near their Far North Side homes, knocking one of them to the ground and trying to rape her, prosecutors said today. Hassan Flowers, 25 was subdued by two men who heard the second victim's cries for help in the 1700 block of West Pratt Boulevard in the Rogers Park neighborhood. "The woman was screaming. I helped, that's it," one of the men said in a phone interview. Flowers, of the 6700 block of North Bosworth Avenue, theatrically dropped his jaw and raised his eyebrows after Cook County Judge Adam Bourgeois Jr. said, "This one is easy" as he ordered him held on $1 million bail.

As owner of a Rogers Park print shop, Kathleen Paluch once printed some T-shirts festooned with the slogan "Made in Rogers Park. " When she and her husband Denis traveled, they often wore the shirts, which rarely failed to remind the Paluchs of the kinship folks all over seem to feel for this far North Side Chicago neighborhood. "Wherever in the country we wore ours, we would get people waving from the sidewalk or from their cars, saying, 'We used to live there!' " Paluch recalled.

Police have released photos of a man suspected of grabbing a woman off the street in the Rogers Park neighborhood and sexually assaulting her in a construction area near the CTA Morse station. The woman, 50, told police she was walking south on Glenwood around 5:45 a.m. Wednesday when a man wearing a mask grabbed her by the throat near the entrance to the station, according to the police report. As she screamed, the man dragged her into a construction area and assaulted her, threatening to "snap her neck" if she screamed again, police said.

Three teens were shot in separate incidents on the city's North and South sides Friday night and Saturday morning, police said. A 19-year-old man was shot by someone inside a red sedan after an argument just after 9 p.m. Friday night in the 1700 block of West Chase Avenue in the Rogers Park neighborhood, police said. He was shot in the lower back and taken to St. Francis Hospital of Evanston in serious condition, police said. North Area detectives are investigating. An 18-year-old was shot in the buttocks about 11:30 p.m. Friday on the 3400 block of West Montrose Avenue, near Kimball Avenue, in the Albany Park neighborhood, police said.

A man who holed himself and a woman up inside an apartment following a domestic incident has been arrested and the situation is under control this evening in the Rogers Park neighborhood, police said. Police were summoned to an apartment in the 1300 block of West Birchwood Avenue for a call of a domestic disturbance at 2:06 p.m., said police News Affairs Officer Veejay Zala. Officers got there and found a man had barricaded himself inside an apartment with a woman. Zala said she was able to escape and was taken to Saint Francis Hospital for treatment.

A convicted felon charged in the 1988 slaying of a woman in her Rogers Park apartment was ordered held without bail today, authorities said. DNA evidence helped Chicago police arrest Prentice Phillips, 48, of Evanston, who was charged Thursday with first-degree murder in the beating death of Margaret Blair, who was 81, according to the Cook County state's attorney's office. Investigators in May sent DNA evidence collected at the time of the attack analyzed to the state police crime lab using a cold-case grant, and on Sept.

Once home to about a dozen movie palaces such as the Adelphi, Granada and Norshore, the Rogers Park neighborhood now has only two, which are struggling to survive and keep the legacy alive. Morse Theater, which was refurbished into a music venue, was said to be on the verge of closing because its owners were mired in a dispute over its operation. A deal was struck recently, but the future of the theater, which opened in 1912 as a former silent movie and vaudeville house, is uncertain.

A 27-year-old man was fatally struck this morning by an outbound CTA Red Line train in the Rogers Park neighborhood, authorities said. The man was hit on the elevated tracks at about 1:20 a.m. just north of the Loyola station in the 1300 block of West Columbia Avenue, according to police and Chicago Transit Authority officials. The Glenview man was taken to St. Francis Hospital in Evanston in critical condition and was pronounced dead...

A man accused of making several threatening calls about Loyola University - claiming that he was on the Rogers Park campus and had an Uzi and four sticks of dynamite - was ordered held Saturday in lieu of $300,000 bail. Henry J. Tapia, 43, of the 1300 block of West Columbia Avenue, was charged with making a bomb threat and transmitting a threat to a school. Prosecutors did not detail a possible motive. Assistant Public Defender Anthony Williams told the court Saturday that Tapia was taking medication for psychosis.

Police are looking for a man they believe tried to lure a 12-year-old girl into his car in Rogers Park last month. The incident happened at about 6:50 a.m. on Sept. 26 as the girl was waiting for a bus near Damen and Lunt avenues, according to a police alert. "An older vehicle, possibly a red Toyota or Nissan four-door, pulled up next to the girl, beeped his horn and then motioned for her to come to his vehicle," the alert stated. The driver was described as a white man between 45 and 55 years old with brown and gray hair, blue eyes and wearing brown or black framed glasses with thick lenses.